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Canada: Agency closure puts prospective parents on hold
From CTV News Calgary: A Manitoba based adoption agency is shutting down and now several Alberta families are worried about the welfare of the children and the status of their adoptions. The Canadian Advocate for the Adoption of Children or CAFAC, says it can no longer afford to maintain its overseas operations and closed its [...]
Canadian parents wary as China confronts baby trafficking
From CBC News: When Cathy Wagner of Bridgewater, N.S., heard a CBC story last week about babies stolen from their families several years ago in Hunan province, her reaction was that nothing has changed. She’s the mother of a 5-year-old girl adopted from the same region in China. “It’s like a dirty secret”, she says, [...]
Children underfed at Ethiopian ‘transition’ home run by Imagine Adoption: lawyer
From The Toronto Star: While the operators of an Ontario adoption agency were allegedly squandering their clients’ money on vacations, a horse and clothes from Holt Renfrew, food was running out for dozens of children living at the agency’s Ethiopian “transition home.” Kitchener lawyer Ted Giesbrecht arrived at the complex in July 2009 to find [...]
Canada: Two charged in adoption agency fraud case
From the Cambridge Times: Two former employees of the Cambridge not-for-profit international adoption agency Imagine Adoption Inc., were arrested and charged today with breach of trust and fraud in connection with $420,000 in allegedly misused funds. The agency’s former general manager Rick Hayhow, 46, was arrested today in Cambridge and founder and former executive director [...]
Canada: Fraud probe continues into bankrupt Imagine Adoption
From The Record: Fraud investigators are still sifting through documents more than 16 months after an international adoption agency went bankrupt. “I wish I could, but at this point in time I can’t commit to when we’re going to be completed the investigation,” said Staff Sgt. Dale Roe, head of the Waterloo Regional Police fraud [...]
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